Richard Zurawski

Environmentalist and Chief Meteorologist
Halifax, Nova Scotia

What Richard is Passionate About

Global Warming and Your Region 

What effect does global warming have on your region? Richard explores its effects, timeline, solutions and significance with special reference to the Maritimes and Canada. Richard has covered this topic in his book Richard Zurawski’s Book of Maritime Weather and Richard Zurawski’s Book of Maritime Climate Change. Do we have time to effect change? What will happen if we do nothing? How soon will this happen and how bad will it be? Is there a controversy and do most climate scientists agree that we are changing the Earth’s climate? Why are there so many sceptics and who funds them? Richard covers all of your questions and more in this informative and significant topic about the changing climate due to human activity.

Science and the Media 

Why have we become so stupid when it comes to science? Richard covers media outlets (TV, radio and print) and how the information we receive from these outlets mould us and our opinions for the purposes of vested interests and business. Has the media actually made us illiterate? When it comes to science, our views may be skewed as well as our knowledge and understanding because of vested interests, business biases and manufactured consent that is devoid of content. It’s too much about entertainment, spectacle and immediate gratification. It is changing the way we think on a fundamental level and this result is already evident in our children and grandchildren. Richard explores the media and its coverage on environment in this enlightening discussion. Richard is a specialist in media and its effects on information, especially when it comes to science. His upcoming book Television…Why We Have Become So Stoopid in Science explores these trends in media.

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